Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-05-25

Dutch South Africa, and Frank Muller to
rule it! Well, such things have been, and
may be again. Give me forty years of life
and strength and we shall see"-
Just then he reached the veranda OF the
house, and, dismissing his secret ambitions
from his mind, Frank Mules dismounted and
entered In the sitting room he found Silas
Croft reading newspaper.
"Good day, ON Silas," he said, extending
his hand.
@Good day, Meinheer Frank Muller" re-
piled the old man, coldly, for John had told
him of the incident at the shooting party
which had so nearly ended fatally, and
iormed his own conclusions.
"What are you reading in The Volkstem,
Om Silas-about the Bezuidenhout affairP
"No; what was thatl"
'It was that the volk are rising against you
English, that Is ALL The sheriff seized Be-
zuidenhouts wagon in execution OF taxes, and
put it up to sale at Potchefstroom. But the
volk kicked the auctioneer off the wagon and
hunted him round the town; and now Cover
nor Lanyon is sending Raaf down with power
to swear in special constables and enforce the
law ut Pochefstroom. He might as well try
to stop river by throwing stones. Let me
see, big meeting at Paarde Kraalswas to
have been on the fifteenth Of December, now
it is to be on the eighth, and then we shall see
if it will be peace or war;"
aPeace or war2" answered the old man,
testify "That has been the cry for years.
How many big meetings have there been
since Shepstone annexed the country? Six,
think. And what has come Of it ala Just
nothing but talk. And what can come Of itl
Suppose the Beers did fight, what would the
end of it bc3 They would be beaten, and a
lot of people would be killed, and that would
be the end of it. You don't suppose that
England would give into handful of Beers,
do you? What did Gen. Wolseley say the
other day at the dinner at Potchefstroom7
Why, that the country would never be given
up, because no government, Conservative,
Liberal or Radical, would dare to do such
thing. And now this new Gladstone govern
ment has telegraphed the same thing, so what
is the use Of oil the talk and childishness! Tell
me that, Frank Muller"
Muller laughed as he answered, "You are
all very simple people, you English. Don't
you know that government is like woman
who cries No, no, no. and kisses you oil the
timel If there is noise enough, your British
government will eat its words and give
Wolseley and Shepstone and Bartle Frere
and Lanyon, and oil Of them, the lie. This is
a bigger business than you think for, ON
Silas. OF course all these meetings and talk
are got up. The people are angry because OF
the English way OF dealing with the natives.
aid because they have to pay taxes; and they
think that, now that you English have paid
their debts and smashed up Sikukuni and
Cetewayo. they would like to have the land
back. They were glad enough for you to take
it at first; now it is another matter. But
still that is not much. II they were left to
themselves nothing would come of it except
talk, for many of them are very glad that the
land should be English. But the men who
pull the strings are down in the Cape. They
want to drive every Englishman out Of
South Africa When Shepstone annexed the
Transvaal he turned the scale against the
Dutch element and broke up the plans they
have been laying for years to make big
anti-English republic Of the whole country.
If the Transyeal remains English there is an
end Of their hopes, for only the free state re-
mains, and that is hemmed in. That Is why
they are so angry; and that is why their
tools are stirring the people up. They mean
to make them fight now. and think that
they will succeed. If the Beers win the day
they will declare themselves; If not, you will
hear nothing of them, and the Beers will
bear the brunt Of it.. They are very cunning
people, the Cape patriots, but they look we'll
after themselves.
Silas Croft looked troubled and made no
answer, and Frank Muller rose and stared
out of the window.